/*
 * chombo: Hadoop Map Reduce utility
 * Author: Pranab Ghosh
 * 
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 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
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package org.chombo.stats;

/**
 * @author pranab
 *
 */
public abstract class ProbabilityDistribution {
	
	/**
	 * @param ord
	 * @return probability of x less than ord
	 */
	public abstract double getDistr(double ord);
	
	/**
	 * probability of x between ordOne and ordTwo
	 * @param ordOne
	 * @param ordTwo
	 * @return
	 */
	public double getDistrBetween(double ordOne, double ordTwo) {
		double distr = getDistr(ordOne) - getDistr(ordTwo);
		return Math.abs(distr);
	}

}
